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A daily pill cut an average liter of volume from swollen legs.
A small trial suggests the first medication for lymphedema may be getting closer.
SOURCEStanford Medicine
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ALL THE SLOP
Every serving. No expiration date. Page 3 of 4.
SCIENCE
They lined the surgery cavity with radioactive tiles. Surgical-site recurrence fell to 1.3%.
A Phase 3 trial turned the walls of a surgical cavity into the radiation treatment.
SOURCEUT MD Anderson Cancer Center / Journal of Clinical Oncology
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After brain-metastasis surgery, three to five radiation sessions beat one.
A small scheduling change produced a surprisingly large clinical difference.
SOURCEAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology
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A urine-and-swab test ruled out womb cancer 98.8% of the time.
A painless test using urine and a vaginal swab showed it could accurately rule out womb cancer for most women with postmenopausal bleeding.
SOURCEUniversity of Manchester
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SCIENCE
A vitamin-derived molecule reached its target in mitochondrial disease patients.
A Cambridge-led study gave nicotinamide riboside to eight people with mitochondrial DNA disease. It was well tolerated and showed early signs of working.
SOURCEGenome Medicine / University of Cambridge
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SCIENCE
An experimental drug gave mice with MS-like disease their movement back.
In a mouse model of multiple sclerosis, the experimental drug K-9 restored function after paralysis and vision loss had already set in. It has not been tested in people with MS.
SOURCENational Institutes of Health / UVA Health
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SCIENCE
Chagas treatment just got cut from 60 days to 30.
In the TESEO trial, 450 adults received different benznidazole regimens. The 30-day, once-daily option matched the standard 60-day course in the trial and caused fewer side effects.
SOURCEUTEP
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HUMANS
THE LINE HELD.
HUMANS
A high school football team pulled a pontoon out of a flash flood.
When flash flooding hit New Richland, Minnesota, players from the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva football team helped with a pontoon rescue instead of watching from the bank.
SOURCEKEYC News
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SCIENCE
THE SCAN CAME BACK EMPTY.
SCIENCE
Two doses of a new immunotherapy cleared a child's liver cancer.
Researchers at Texas Children's, Baylor College of Medicine and Seattle Children's reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that a child with hepatoblastoma had complete regression of disease after a novel immunotherapy given as part of the CARE study.
SOURCETexas Children's Hospital
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SCIENCE
THE HAND FELT BACK.
SCIENCE
He lost his arm at 16. Now he can feel his wife's hand.
Seventeen years after an amputation, Alexander “Avi” Davidson became the first participant to take Utah's thought-controlled bionic arm home — with a nerve interface that gives it a sense of touch.
SOURCEUniversity of Utah Health
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SCIENCE
TWO ORIGINS. ONE BRAIN.
SCIENCE
The human brain may have been built from two ancient systems.
Stanford researchers found the forebrain/midbrain and hindbrain arise from distinct progenitor cell populations — and used that insight to grow functional human hindbrain motor neurons in the lab.
SOURCEStanford Medicine
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SCIENCE
THE GENOME GOT A BIGGER TOOLBOX.
SCIENCE
Gene editing just learned to move bigger pieces of DNA.
A new lab method can place gene-sized DNA at targeted sites in human cells. No patients yet.
SOURCENature
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SCIENCE
LAB BENCH HOPE.
SCIENCE
Scientists found antibodies that blocked the red-meat allergy in the lab.
42 antibodies made. Two blocked the reaction. In a dish, for now.
SOURCENIH
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SCIENCE
STAGE 1 AND 2, CAUGHT ABOUT 87% OF THE TIME
SCIENCE
A blood test just got better at finding pancreatic cancer early.
An investigational blood test flagged stage 1 and 2 pancreatic cancer about 87% of the time in a study of roughly 1,800 people. Not FDA-cleared. Still a big deal.
SOURCENature Medicine
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HUMANS
800 VILLAGERS. 350,000 OBSERVATIONS.
HUMANS
They used to hunt the wildlife. Now the photos pay better.
About 800 villagers across nine Borneo villages get paid for verified photos, video and audio of wildlife. Two villages have since banned hunting themselves.
SOURCEBorneo Futures
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HUMANS
$650 AND JEOPARDY AT 7.
HUMANS
The rent was too high. Then she met her 77-year-old roommate.
Affordable rent, useful help, and Jeopardy at 7.
SOURCEGood Good Good / HomeShare Vermont
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SCIENCE
18.5 MONTHS INSTEAD OF 10.
SCIENCE
The experimental lung-cancer drug nearly doubled median survival.
18.5 months vs. 10.0. Promising, not approved.
SOURCEBioNTech / OncoC4
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SCIENCE
FOUR MILLION LAKES, WATCHED.
SCIENCE
The Arctic has a new early-warning map. It watches lakes disappear.
Four million Arctic lakes are now being watched in near real time for signs that frozen ground is giving way.
SOURCEAlfred Wegener Institute
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HUMANS
SAME BLOOD DRIVE. DIFFERENT DOORS.
HUMANS
The church and mosque next door keep giving blood together.
They started as new neighbors. Fifteen years later, the annual blood drive is still on the calendar.
SOURCEMemphis Islamic Center
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HUMANS
THE BOAT ADAPTED.
HUMANS
The wheelchair stays on shore. The sailor doesn’t.
Sometimes inclusion looks like a hoist, a custom boat and a wide-open sea.
SOURCEReasons to Be Cheerful
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SCIENCE
NINE MONTHS HE DIDN'T HAVE.
SCIENCE
The pig kidney bought him nine months. It was enough.
A genetically modified pig kidney kept Tim Andrews off dialysis for 271 days — the longest such stretch yet in a living person. He later received a human kidney, making this the first reported pig-kidney transplant to serve as a bridge to a human one.
SOURCEMass General Brigham / The Lancet
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SCIENCE
YOUR TREE PHOTOS HAVE A JOB.
SCIENCE
The AI still needs your tree photos.
AI-generated images helped species-identification models when real photos were scarce — but actual photographs from people in the real world still performed better. Your random tree picture remains scientifically employed.
SOURCENC State University
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SCIENCE
THE CLINIC RUNS ON SUN.
SCIENCE
The sun is running a clinic now.
Twenty-three students built Stella Juva, a solar-powered mobile clinic that drove more than 800 km across Kenya and, while stationary, generated enough energy to power all its onboard medical equipment at once. It hasn’t treated real patients yet — this was field testing — but the sun appears to be doing rounds.
SOURCESolar Team Eindhoven / Amref Health Africa
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HUMANS
DINNER. YOUR PRICE.
HUMANS
100 restaurants said: pay what you can.
A one-day idea from Mexico City restaurant Masala y Maíz grew into a global event with 100 restaurants in 14 countries signed on, while staff kept their normal wages and tips. The radical business innovation: trust people.
SOURCEPaga Lo Que Puedas / Masala y Maíz via Good Good Good
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